the Rats of NIMH, rather than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I'd limit super-animals to areas where they do /not/ draw human attention, like NIMH, as a survival mechanism.
Anything with obvious differences, like the laser eyes you mentioned, is likely to be "destroy, then autopsy" as the /first/ response.
Sea life is more likely to survive without detection just because we use so LITTLE of the actual volume of the oceans. Pond life is waaay more noticeable, and the worst area to "spawn" would be the third-stage treatment plants for large urban water supplies. (The huge, huge water reservoir without the tanks, which is almost-human-potable, but has a few PPM too many of something which breaks down under UV exposure. Water sits and "cures" for anywhere from days to weeks before cycling into the water supply as tap-safe.)
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Date: 2014-05-30 01:33 am (UTC)I'd limit super-animals to areas where they do /not/ draw human attention, like NIMH, as a survival mechanism.
Anything with obvious differences, like the laser eyes you mentioned, is likely to be "destroy, then autopsy" as the /first/ response.
Sea life is more likely to survive without detection just because we use so LITTLE of the actual volume of the oceans. Pond life is waaay more noticeable, and the worst area to "spawn" would be the third-stage treatment plants for large urban water supplies. (The huge, huge water reservoir without the tanks, which is almost-human-potable, but has a few PPM too many of something which breaks down under UV exposure. Water sits and "cures" for anywhere from days to weeks before cycling into the water supply as tap-safe.)